One issue in this election seems to hark back to 1997: school class sizes. Then it was one of Labour’s key manifesto pledges to cut class sizes to less than 30 for all five, six and

Immigration has emerged as one of the major themes of the election, and one of the few where there are clear dividing lines between the parties.

Meg Hillier MP, Minister for Identity, was right when she said, “Whenever identity cards are mentioned it's always been with the word ‘controversial’.”

Is David Cameron right to claim that people are dying because they cannot get access to cancer drugs?

The British system really does treat electors like idiots.

So: are the opinion polls having a good election or a bad election? It is impossible to know.

This is supposed to be the election where the “new media” makes its mark – Twitter, Facebook, political blogging and YouTube, mobilising support, exchanging views and shaking up t

Mephedrone will soon join the list of banned drugs, as a result of the advice of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to classify it as a Class B drug alongside cannabis and amphetamines.

The Conservative Party’s election manifesto asserts: “The difference in male life expectancy between the richest and poorest areas in our country is now greater than during Victori

When a political party puts enormous weight on a single issue, you’d hope they have their facts right about it.